HEARTS Academy Trust seeks a dynamic CFO to provide strong leadership, strategic direction, and vision for pupils, families, staff, and communities.
Key responsibilities include:
* Strategic financial leadership
* Financial management and control
* Preparing and monitoring budgets and delivering annual accounts
* Participation in Executive Team, Trust Board, and Local Advisory Body meetings
Other essential experiences include:
* Leading and managing multi-disciplinary teams
* Strategic financial management across multiple sites
* Business analysis, managing, and supporting business improvement
* Understanding of risk management, particularly in relation to finance
* Strategic leadership, including setting whole-organisation goals and managing teams to achieve objectives
* Overseeing and completing the budget preparation process
* Auditing payroll to ensure regulations are met
* Strong technical skills and IT literacy
* Proven track record of successful leadership and management experience, at a senior level
* Experience of leading an organisation through a period of budgetary reduction, growth, and expansion
* Familiarity with financial processes and procedures, including those related to internal/external audit
Preferred Experience:
* An accountancy qualification from a recognised, professional body
* Management of contractors and third-party organisations
* Exposure to human resource matters
* Knowledge of school-based accounting and management information systems
* Knowledge of the Academy Trust Handbook and related regulations
* Experience working in an educational setting
* Experience in obtaining additional sources of funding & income